He had gotten poked in the eye in the previous game, …
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At the end of the first quarter, a ball bounced off the rim and he started to reach for it, then awkwardly tapped it toward a teammate. Footage shows him walking off the court and pointing to his left eye, as if it were hurt. He had gotten poked in the eye in the previous game, and he told me that this seemed easier than inventing a new injury. It wasn’t until he was sitting in the hospital, having his eye checked out, with Kelli and his mom by his side, that the realization of what he’d done set in. “Just an overwhelming amount of shame,” he said. “It felt like I was taking advantage of the very thing that gave me the world.”
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